BFB events talks seminars workshops

Just finishing your PhD and wondering whether the DFG offers funding for your next career step in academia? Either after your PhD in Germany to move on to another host institution – or after your PhD in an international context to realise your next research project in Germany? The Walter Benjamin Programme offers both options for early postdocs. In our talk, you will get first-hand information about the DFG funding organisation, the aim of the Walter Benjamin Programme, its eligibility requirements and the type, the scope and the duration of the funding. We will explain how the DFG arrives at a funding decision and give you tips on how to prepare a proposal. We will be happy to answer your questions during and after the talk. We invite PhD candidates and early postdocs of all disciplines from all countries as well as research support staff.

Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - Caesar Seminar Series Speaker: Itai Cohen, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Title:

Speakers: Lilly Pitshaporn Leelaarporn, PhD; Julia Taube, PhD; Ana Soriano-Arroquia, PhD Title: “Postdoc Perspectives: Research, Careers & Life After the PhD”

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Caraveo-Piso Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA Mechanisms of Brain Resilience in Neurodegeneration Hosts: Joachim Schultze & Sach Mukherjee

The GBM Lunch is aimed at a wide audience, both in terms of professional scope and the level of expertise of the participants. Following the lecture there will be an opportunity for Q&A. Marisela Rodriguez (Emerging Pharma Discovery Consulting) Methods Workshop: A practical tool that simplifies scientific database research The volume of curated, open-source scientific data is enormous. Yet it is fragmented across numerous databases that were never designed to communicate with each other. We have a fundamental data access problem in scientific research that hinders our ability to design better experiments and decisions. In this seminar, we will showcase a practical solution to tackle this problem.